ordered Facebook to stop tracking people without their consent and to delete all the data on non-Facebook users that it said was...

Last week, Special Counsel Robert Mueller filed the first indictments against Russian nationals and organizations for interference in the...

As of yesterday, Germany began to enforce its anti-hate speech and illegal content law (“NetzDG”), originally passed in mid-2017. It...

An article appearing in The Washington Post about Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election says Facebook “scrubbed”...

Google’s recent $2.7 billion antitrust fine in Europe had a material impact on its quarterly earnings. The possibility of additional...

In the wake of the EU’s recent $2.7 billion dollar fine of Google, the US news media are seeking to both change and wield antitrust law...

Publishers, Page owners and video creators can now make some money when their copyrighted videos are reposted by other Facebook users....

Google, Facebook and several other large US-based internet sites have had a tense relationship with EU regulators, who see many of their...

Under pressure from activists and lawmakers, Facebook moved recently to prohibit using its “Ethnic Affinities” targeting in conjunction...

Breaking! Facebook now allows advertisers to illegally target ads based on race. Except it doesn’t, despite some of the breathless...

Earlier this week the US Justice Department asked a judge in San Francisco to compel Facebook to produce internal documents tied to a...

The allegations regarding Facebook potentially manipulating the Trending Topics have caused quite a stir, and the story isn’t over. After...

After the story broke of possible rigging in Facebook’s Trending Topics — certain news content being purposely swept under the rug in...

Yesterday, a court in a Düsseldorf ruled that German websites using Facebook buttons could not transfer data to the company without user...

France’s data protection authority, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has been one of the more aggressive in...

Facebook’s “friend finder” bulk contacts-invitation function has been found to violate Germany’s data protection rules. The country’s...

On Tuesday, European officials approved data protection regulations that formalize many of the court decisions and other regulatory...

Like Google, Facebook is under fire in Europe from privacy regulators. Today, the company said it would appeal a decision by a court in...

The SIINDA conference in Prague concluded today with a panel of European publishers and lawyers discussing a range of legal and...

Facing increasingly emboldened data protection regulators in Europe and a recent judicial setback concerning cross-border data transfers,...